"Cockroach"
by Abel Wong
1990 3rd Quarter
Features
- James Gunn: The Dreamer
- "[SF is] writing largely for maladjusted teenagers who had sublimated their sexual and social frustration into various kinds of intellectual activity, including the reading of science fiction." --James Gunn, Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction
- Your First Words
- Extracts of James Gunn's lecture on the writing of science fiction, given in Singapore for the Literary Programme 1990, part of that year's Festival of Arts.
- Windows of our Minds
- June was a month of rare opportunities for aspiring artists and lovers of SF & F art, with an competition/exhibition and workshops conducted by Michael Kaluta and Charles Vess.
- Science Fiction and Fantasy: Is There a Difference?
- Everyone knows that there is fantasy and then there is science fiction. But is there really a dichotomy, and if so, is there some utility in keeping them separate?
- Brian Aldiss: Living the Trillion Year Spree
- "This is the man who once locked me in a wardrobe because I wrote a bad review of one of his books.... It's a pity there are so few writers with the wit and initiative to take this kind of prompt corrective action." --Charles Platt, on Brian Aldiss
Fiction
- Greeting Services, by Jerome Chan
- Sporadic white lines laced across the screen before forming into a golden globe. Blue fonts formed a greeting message over the globe. "Damn greeting services," Mazon cursed silently. "Hell of a way to torture someone."
- The Triumphant Return of Buck Savage, by Terence Chua
- Hey, Old Timer, what did you do last time?
Did a lot of things, he replies.
Like what? you ask. What's your name anyway?
Name? he smiles, white teeth, suddenly gleaming pure even though there's barely enough light in the bar.
I used to be Buck Savage.